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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by alexis_fr on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:38PM (#21185703)
Seems like people didn’t know. Legitimate users didn’t know, while experts did.

More seriously, what prevented an Apple user from uploading it on Torrents? Was it watermarked so Apple would find the culprit?

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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by scarface74 on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:11PM (#21185992)
No watermarking besides the standard AAC tags saying who the owner is.

Steve Jobs argued for DRM free music as a means to interoperability instead of licensing FairPlay way back in 2007 in his “Thoughts on Music” post. He argued that most music was already DRM free and easily copied and only a small percentage of music on most iPods was bought from iTunes.

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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by nixpulvis on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:35PM (#21186203)
Funny how it's so easy to forget this when you're the big player now.
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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by scarface74 on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:37PM (#21186742)
Apple was the big player for digital downloads and music players then.
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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by nixpulvis on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:04PM (#21186927)
Fair point. I was thinking more around the era of 2004.
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